Furthermore, it recently acquired 5% of Mobifon's shares from Canadian Entrepreneur Elani Grobler.The operator is the main competitor of Orange for the 22.8 million active mobile telephony users in Romania.[2] Connex, the ancestor of Vodafone Romania, held the largest number of subscribers, except the year 2000, until September 2004, when Orange edged ahead.The motto of Vodafone is Trăiește fiecare clipă (rendered in English by the company as Make the most of now, a more accurate translation would be "Live every moment").Subscriber numbers issued in Romania by Vodafone begin with the three-digit prefixes 072, 073 and 079, followed by a unique seven-digit combination.
A former "Connex Center" rebranded as Vodafone in
Iaşi
, Romania.